Top stories published by SlideMagic in January of 2016

User interface, web design, and presentation are moving quickly. Graphics that looked fresh and new a couple of years ago, now look really stale and old. Look at old version of Windows and Mac OSX operating systems, a mobile phone home screen in 2008, and the PowerPoint template…

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Jan 17, 2016

Corporate language simplification is next

A lot of the progress of humanity boils down to improving and simplifying communication. There were huge wins when we figured out how to speak and coordinate hunting strategies, learned how to read/write/print books, speak long distance instead of taking…

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Jan 21, 2016

Better consulting presentations

Management consultants produce tons of charts that might look professional, but in most cases, they are actually not that good. (Most management consultants will admit this if you ask them).

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Jan 13, 2016

Lining up text, lining up text boxes

A post for the purists today. In PowerPoint, a text box and a rectangular coloured shape with text line up the same way: you hover them across the slides and “snap” lines appear that encourage you to line things up with items above or below. To do it correctly…

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Jan 15, 2016

The market and company history — you care, they probably not

It is interesting to hear/see that when older startup companies (let’s 5 or or more years) always start with a background of the market and the company. Back in 2005, this happened, we did that, then this, then we got…

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Jan 5, 2016

Counting the boxes

The first thing I do for almost any slide is “counting the boxes”: how many points does each argument have, how many people are there on the team, how many layers to the technology, how many steps in the process.

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Jan 10, 2016

Keep the CEO in the loop

Investor presentations usually start with the CFO (who naturally puts a finance spin on the story), then the Marketing Director adds product positioning, the Sales Director puts in a highly detailed benefit analysis: the result 3 presentations.

Jan Schultink in SlideMagic

Jan 20, 2016

Problem and solution go hand in hand

I usually spend 80% of the production section of a pitch on the problem, and 20% of the solution. That might seem an uneven balance. But in fact, these two sections are one and the same thing, they go hand in hand. The way you frame the problem, sets up the way you…

February 2016

These were the top 10 stories published by SlideMagic in January of 2016. You can also dive into daily archives for January of 2016 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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